No-till acreage has increased in recent years, but many farmers alternate no-till with other tillage practices, limiting public and private benefits from sustained no-till adoption. Revealed preference data are used in an ordered logit regression analysis to determine the effect of soil characteristics, climate, regions, farm characteristics, and producer demographics on producers’ choices to u...

Hmong farm children perform different work tasks, have different roles and responsibilities, and are thus exposed to different hazards than most North American farm children. Hmong children perform tasks in four time-related phases: pre-harvest, harvest, post-harvest, and product marketing. Standard health and safety educational materials, including the North American Guidelines for Children's ...

Submerged robots are broadly acclimated in the acreage of amphibian development. The necessity for higher value and propulsive routine basically requires fish-like performance. Fish swim in an unusual motion such as ostraciiform. The Ostraciiform pond approach utilizes the caudal fin aerial to accomplish piscine propulsion with axis maneuverability. Various absolute automatic angle models based...

Potatoes have been grown continuously on many Long Island (New York) fields. Environmental concerns have raised questions about the continued usage of this practice. A farm-level linear programming model was used to investigate the economic impacts of crop rotations which result in reduced potato acreage. Crop rotations (an Integrated Pest Management tactic) reduced total pesticide use, but als...

The value of California citrus production in the 2020-21 marketing year was $3.63 billion. total economic impact industry on California’s economy $7.6 added $1.9 billion to state GDP 2020. Estimated full time equivalent jobs totaled 24,247. wages paid by income $759 million. A 20% reduction acreage would cause a loss 8,213 jobs, $214 million employee income, and reduce $569

Teff [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] is a relatively new forage crop that is attracting much interest among hay growers in the United States and Utah (Creech, et al., 2012). Teff plants have fine stems, shallow roots and are not frost tolerant. This annual, warm-season grass grows best during the hottest months of the year when cool-season grasses suffer their “summer slump.” Since Teff does n...

Journal of Plant Registrations, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 2009 269 Grain protein concentration (GPC) has a major impact on the end-use quality of bread products made with fl our extracted from hard wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grain; therefore, this trait is typically a high priority in wheat improvement efforts aimed at improving bread-making quality. Due to improved profi t potential compared ...

Tall fescue is native to Europe and was rarely planted in the United States until after the first four decades of the 20 century. However, since the release of the variety ‘Kentucky 31’ in 1943, this versatile cool season perennial grass has been widely planted for forage, turf, and conservation purposes, with most of the acreage planted consisting of this variety. “Fescue” has many attributes ...

This analysis utilizes farm-level data to evaluate the extent to which U.S. farm program benefits, particularly direct payments, bring about distortions in production. The issue is important in WTO negotiations and in the debate over the distortionary effects of decoupled (“green-box”) payments. Our results suggest that the distortions brought about by AMTA payments, though statistically signif...

U.S. food prices rose 4% in 2007 and are expected to gain 3.5% to 4.5% in 2008. Higher farm commodity prices and energy costs are the leading factors behind higher food prices. Farm commodity prices have surged because (1) demand for corn for ethanol is competing with food and feed for acreage; (2) global food grain and oilseed supplies are low due to poor harvests; (3) the weak dollar has incr...